Kanye West

I don’t feel crazy any more! It was always like – it’s going to be one of two things, either i’m crazy or everybody else is.

On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.

When you want to express yourself, a lot of times words can get in the way.

I feel that [Trump] cares about the way black people feel about him, and he would like for black people to like him like they did when he was cool in the rap songs and all this.

I believe ‘ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means ‘you’.

[Trump] will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he’s got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president, and he knows that he can’t be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community. So it’s something he’s gonna work towards, but we’re gonna have to speak to him.

Jazz isn’t a what, it’s a how.

I don’t believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.

I’m always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

If there is no dance, there is not music.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

The majority of people mistakenly feel they don’t need a live musical experience.

A musician’s responsibility is to get as much of his art across to the public as possible.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That’s why I wanted the clarinet.

It’s just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

I wanted to do the music, but not at the expense of being happy.

You can’t copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, you’re working without any real feeling.

Players are coming from other backgrounds: rock, folk, ethnic music. It’s changing Jazz for the better.

There’s a way of playing safe and then there’s where you create something you haven’t created before.